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The last Schools Challenge quiz
Feb. 23rd, 2005 07:33 pmFirstly, Bristol have given me a conditional offer, AAB with A in Chem. I would like to take a long-hoped for minute to be smug. They said it couldn't done. They said I was crazy. But I've done it. As UCAS are now telling me, I have conditional offers for PPE at Oxford and Medicine at a top medical school off the same UCAS form in the same year. I've done it.
Sigh.
Moving on to less momentous topics, there is the schools quiz. Which was this afternoon, and very much of the fun. Everything went off as planned, and my team and I sat down for our first match at about two thirty. And we lost it. But it's nothing like when I was in Lower Five; we lost by about a hundred points (as opposed to six hundred formerly) and sat out for the next match. The team that lost that one played us, and we totally thrashed them, eight hundred to five hundred. Somewhere near the end we got onto a roll, getting four or five starters in a row and all the bonuses. Fab.
It was only afterwards that I started getting depressed. My last year as captain! I'll never do this again. "Unless you get onto University Challenge," Mrs Colvin said solemnly, and I laughed.
This year's best howlers:
Quizmaster: What holiday is celebrated in Russia on January 7th?
Caldy captain: (in all seriousness) May Day.
QM: What country do the Faroe Islands belong to?
Me: Denmark.
QM: Where would one eat smorgasbord?
Me: Denmark.
QM: What nation was Britain at war with in the late eighties?
Me: ...Denmark?
Nul points.
QM: And for your bonuses, Merchants' - spellings.
Me, team, Mrs C: *hysterics*
Gayathri: Can I do these?
All: *on floor*
[Lest we should forget, Gayathri is officially Britain's best speller.]
QM: In Red Dwarf, what character was played by Chris Barrie?
Me: Rimmer.
QM: Christian names?
Me: Arnold Judas.
All: *blink*
Lastly -
QM: What did PG Wodehouse's initials stand for?
Some bloke on other team: PARENTAL GUIDANCE!
So we didn't win, but we didn't lose disgracefully.
Anyway. I got home, watched The Fifth Race and am shortly to watch Moebius. Was thinking about going off on a small rant about the British school system, as I have been asked to do so, but that will come later. Right now I think coffee may be in order.
Sigh.
Moving on to less momentous topics, there is the schools quiz. Which was this afternoon, and very much of the fun. Everything went off as planned, and my team and I sat down for our first match at about two thirty. And we lost it. But it's nothing like when I was in Lower Five; we lost by about a hundred points (as opposed to six hundred formerly) and sat out for the next match. The team that lost that one played us, and we totally thrashed them, eight hundred to five hundred. Somewhere near the end we got onto a roll, getting four or five starters in a row and all the bonuses. Fab.
It was only afterwards that I started getting depressed. My last year as captain! I'll never do this again. "Unless you get onto University Challenge," Mrs Colvin said solemnly, and I laughed.
This year's best howlers:
Quizmaster: What holiday is celebrated in Russia on January 7th?
Caldy captain: (in all seriousness) May Day.
QM: What country do the Faroe Islands belong to?
Me: Denmark.
QM: Where would one eat smorgasbord?
Me: Denmark.
QM: What nation was Britain at war with in the late eighties?
Me: ...Denmark?
Nul points.
QM: And for your bonuses, Merchants' - spellings.
Me, team, Mrs C: *hysterics*
Gayathri: Can I do these?
All: *on floor*
[Lest we should forget, Gayathri is officially Britain's best speller.]
QM: In Red Dwarf, what character was played by Chris Barrie?
Me: Rimmer.
QM: Christian names?
Me: Arnold Judas.
All: *blink*
Lastly -
QM: What did PG Wodehouse's initials stand for?
Some bloke on other team: PARENTAL GUIDANCE!
So we didn't win, but we didn't lose disgracefully.
Anyway. I got home, watched The Fifth Race and am shortly to watch Moebius. Was thinking about going off on a small rant about the British school system, as I have been asked to do so, but that will come later. Right now I think coffee may be in order.
